I want a decent camera, I am into walking and I love the views and I want to get a good camera so I can take good pictures, which one do you recommend. Dont mind paying upto £300.

thanks

Hi
I bought a Panasonic DMC-FZ18 last year and cannot fault it. It is not too bulky, light weight, 18x zoom, macro, image stabilized too which works superbly even at max zoom. Auto, creative and manual modes. The image quality is fantastic. Also takes great quality video too. It has now been super-ceded by the DMC-FZ28 which is even better. I believe they can be bought for around £200. Ideal camera for country walks in my opinion. There are of course quite a few others which are just as good.
The last photo I posted was taken with it (Praia de Sao Fransisco). I will try to get time to upload a few more in the next couple of days.
Rgds
Don

You did not say what kind of photography you would like to do. I am new into photography and I bought an DSLR a few months back and I love the quality of the pictures. They are the best for taking "good" pictures. If you can save up and wait, I recommend getting one of those. If I were to suggest a model it would be the Nikon D5000, I am partial to Nikons. But if you are put off by the size/bulk of a SLR then I would suggest spending a few bucks extra and getting the Olympus E-P1. It is a relatively small, point and shoot style, camera and has a SLR sized sensor with the flexibility of interchangeable lenses. If that is too expensive the best of the point and shoot cameras in your price range would be the Lumix LX-3.

Hope this helps!

Out of curiosity, I looked up the Olympus E P1. While the poster previous to this stated with some surity that it had a DSLR sized sensor, I could not, in fact, verify that by the DP review that I read. It seemed the company review, and seemed to carefully skirt around specific facts such as sensor size.

However, what I understand is this: the Olympus is a four thirds system. This is code language meaning "we think it's great quality, but it's scaled down so everything can be more compact and portable." If compact and portable is for you, you may wish to look into this more. However, you scale down the lens and body, and you must, of necessity of physics, scale down the sensor, and you do not get as much space available. Then you break the smaller pixel into ten or twelve million pixels, and the result is that each pixel is smaller, and has less ability to gather light without electronic boosting, which produces noise. And you need to pay $749 for it.

At a lower cost, I recommend a Nikon D40 with it's kit lens. This would be cheap enough and give you enough technology to have a good base reading results upon which to base other camera results.

Chris

ARGOS HAVE THE OLYMPUS 42O dslr for 297 pounds this is compact and lightweight and will give you top notch images to boot